TOPICS OF INTEREST

We invite researchers to present their published and ongoing works on the topics of, but not limited to:

• Improving Pragmatic, Contextual Language Use in LLMs
  How can LLMs' pragmatic abilities be improved and made more human-like, and how should human-likeness in pragmatic competence be assessed?

• Evaluating Pragmatic Competence of Language Models
  How well can LLMs comprehend and/or generate pragmatic language, across task formats and prompting strategies?
  What are key considerations for designing benchmarks and evaluation frameworks?

• Theory-of-Mind (ToM) and Pragmatics
  Is there a correlation between LLM capabilities for Theory-of-Mind reasoning and contextual language generation? If so, what are the mechanisms behind these capabilities?

• Pragmatics across Cultures and Languages
  Are LLM abilities in functional language use similar across cultural contexts and languages?

• Application of LLMs for Understanding Human Pragmatic Language Use
  How can LLMs be leveraged for better theoretical, experimental and computational understanding of human pragmatic language use?

• Interpretability of LLMs' Pragmatic Competence
  What are the mechanisms supporting LLMs' pragmatic competence, e.g.,  through the lens of mechanistic or representational interpretability?